Memory Men Poems

 I needed a job to pay the bills
not knowing what I was getting into.
A telemarketing company if you can believe
selling pieces of Titanic’s carpet...

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Five days of hell
on the phone, selling lies
and pieces of the Titanic carpet.
A sinking ship of a company
with a captain who gropes and leers
and a...

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Men are desires, untold stories,
Women are secrets, adorned in dreams,
Two different universes, searching for each other in the night,
Traversing each other's mystery, bewitched and hunters...

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We buy and are sold priceless things,
read human stories written by android;
a smokescreen present muddies the once transparent past,
innocence doom-scrolls, an aging youth now hard...

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Written 14  October For:
No. 1249 New Poetry Only Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand 

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Everyone says to forget him.
Whenever I talk randomly about him,
They say, "Move on! Let go! Forget him!"
Someone better will come, so let your heart swim.

It's...

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Remember Them with Pride
          by Robert (Bob) Moore 2022

It’s not only for the missing,
the fallen, and...

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...At first he said, “It’s okay, babe.
I work hard, I deserve my play.
For several years he managed it,
played to the masses in the pit.

They lived...

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Carmena knew why he was here,
their parents’ smiles made it clear,
to set her up with Oliver,
who always had made eyes at her.

They didn’t like her...

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There once was a man, strong and tall
With a heart that would never fall
He walked with a purpose, head held high
And always looked straight into...

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A leisurely coffee, conversation
that barely makes it across
the table before slipping back
into silence, shapes passing by
shadowed in the blurr 
of their growing distance.

They gather at...

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EXPIRATION :
Existence of certainties and uncertainties, 
Governed by disclosed and undisclosed warrantees,
The story is actually a mystery. 
Promises become unfulfilled, 
And the expectants turn to...

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Those souls are of many shades 
They walk past me in my dreams,  
often with an utter silence, a heavy one, 
And, all I...

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Among the other thugs in his circle
he is considered to be a statesman
Like them he compromise his values
if he has any to get what he...

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Sometimes life is mean, sometimes life is good.
Sometimes life is clean, sometimes you’re in the mud.

We hold on to things unseen. We hold on to...

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